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Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook

You're reading from   Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook Over 50 new and improved recipes to put Visual Studio 2015 to work in your crucial development projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785887260
Length 368 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Jeff Martin Jeff Martin
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Preface 1. Exploring Visual Studio 2015 2. Getting Started with Universal Windows Platform Apps FREE CHAPTER 3. Web Development 4. .NET Framework Development 5. Debugging Your .NET Application 6. Asynchrony in .NET 7. Unwrapping C++ Development 8. Working with Team Foundation Server 2015 9. Languages 10. Final Polish Index

Detecting duplicate code

Copy and paste development is generally regarded as a bad practice, because bug fixes or enhancements in one area of code have to be repeated in all the other copies of the same code. Not only is this time consuming and tedious, but in large code bases, it's very easy to miss a change, leading to bugs and lower overall quality.

Frequently, code duplication can be unavoidable, especially on larger projects with multiple contributors. Not to mention that using an unfamiliar code base can make it easy to unintentionally write duplicate code. With Visual Studio, Microsoft has provided a way to detect these duplicates so that you can take remedial action to clean it up. Let's see how this is done.

Getting ready

You will need Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 for this recipe. Start it up, and you're ready to go.

Tip

Visual Studio 2013 Premium and Ultimate also support this feature.

How to do it…

  1. Create a new Class Library project under Visual C#, and name the...
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